There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I liked the way it flowed and kudos to the author. but in very condition. A beautifully written love letter to jazz music. Je gebruikersnaam is voor iedereen zichtbaar, en kun je later niet meer aanpassen. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. There's a problem loading this menu right now. But while talent and drive are all y. Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. Race, sexuality, education, social status are subtly addressed throughout the life and career of the main character, inspired by the legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke. Very good story.

Young Man with a Horn (1938)(Dorothy Baker) This novel, loosely based on the life of jazz great Bix Biederbecke, is one of the seminal tales of the gifted but tragically self-destructive artist. Young Man With a Horn [Baker, Dorothy] on Amazon.com.au.

There is little else that can be said in praise of any book." To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Please try your request again later. Read Young Man with a Horn book reviews & author details … Baker died in 1968 of cancer. "Young Man with a Horn is a great book, beautifully conceived and masterfully written. There was a problem loading your book clubs. He has written twelve books, including Visions of Jazz, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998, and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams. I worry that Young Man With a Horn’s “first jazz novel” label hurts more than it helps, perhaps relegating it to historical relic status. Young musicians should get this book! The novel was made into a 1950 movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Doris Day. Please try again. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. And at the same time the first novel dedicated to a Jazz musician. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to movies, TV shows, music, Kindle e-books, Twitch Prime, and more. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It was not.

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The voice comes at you strong, confident, individual: I picked this up (at a posh bookstore in Bangkok, of all places) simply because I had no idea that, Noted 1938 novel about a talented young white jazz musician who grows up in California, befriends several successful, talented young black jazz musicians and in turn becomes a success. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. September 11th 2012

What makes it good, is it acknowledges this, and even admits that writing is not necessarily the best form of art that creates a national culture. After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. Young Man With a Horn x 15mm But this book makes you feel the way musicians must feel about the music they play, and that's quite a feat. Welcome back. If the Amazon.com.au price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, you'll receive the lowest price. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published Young Man with a Horn, which was awarded the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French, later teaching at a private school. The novel was made into a 1950 movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Doris Day. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published

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Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. I read her later novel Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) a few months ago – and loved it.  CLP$13.255, CLP$11.452  CLP$9.885, CLP$13.583 He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. With Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael. Young Man with a Horn. Race, sexuality, education, social status are subtly addressed throughout the life and career of the main character, inspired by the legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke.  CLP$15.640, CLP$12.329 We volgen een kleine eenzame jongen met een oud, tweedehands instrument die opgroeit tot een virtuoze trompettist. Excellently written account of the life of Rick Martin, a young jazz trumpet player who is devoted to his music. Please try again. A young trumpeter enjoys highs (musical success, fame, and fortune) and lows (sour marriage, death of his mentor, bout with alcoholism).

This novel was the fourth of the Fellowship books to be published. Eerste druk: Houghton Mifflin, I read it again approximately every 15 years or so.

Marked by genius but also marked for tragedy. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The story gets more interesting toward the end, in the unfolding drama and downfall of the Man of the title. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren't enough to make it through a life.

However, I found hard to get into the story at the beginning, as I found the music details too dry for a novel. Young man with a horn. Short and on point.
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The book is a wonderful homage to jazz, but is definitely a period piece in its views of race and class, occasional use of the “n” word and other language more typical of pre-WWII America.

Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Baker's main interest is in music: in the development of a musician and the single-minded obsession of someone who is a passionate and talented artist.

Indeed, it pulses with the 1930s jazz world and it is rich of details on how to play instruments and how notes can be delivered. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Something went wrong. Interesting book.

But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life. This is an almost impossibly perfect book.

Hij begint met optreden in achterkroegen, maar belandt in chique clubs. Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice, where his column "Weather Bird" ran for thirty years, and is presently director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among this book's distinctions are that it is the very first jazz novel, as well as one of the rare novels up until then by a white author to portray black people as just people, without misspelled dialect or caricatured actions, and without trying to make a political point.

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Dorothy Baker's first novel follows the short life of Rick Martin, a virtuoso jazz musician at a time when jazz was not taken seriously. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Baker's style is amazing, when I read the sentences I feel like I'm eating them. Something went wrong. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2017. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published. As one reviewer noted, “If you're not a fan of jazz, you will probably like this a lot less than if you were.” Author Baker received several literary awards prior to the 1950’s, many based on this novel, considered “groundbreaking.”, I first read this as a kid, and committed paragraphs to heart that I can still recite. It was hard, having to say goodbye to Rick, the young man with a horn.

geen stemmen. The novel catapulted Baker into the literary limelight – and for many years it remained her best known work having been made into a film starring Doris Day, Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall. Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.
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--New York Amsterdam News "The Young Man with a Horn is the story of a musician, a swing trumpeter …  CLP$9.242, CLP$5.181 After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. Please try your request again later. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Rick Martin is white, but most of his friend and fellow musicians are black: Martin intuitively understand that black musicians play the best and most innovative jazz, and this allows him to move beyond the prejudices and racism of the 1920s. CLP$13.543 The novel is narrated by an unnamed man, a friend and admirer of Rick, although the focus is exclusively on Rick's life.